70% of all transformations fail .

Rather than failing visibly, transformations usually decline.CEOs and leaders put in huge efforts, and involve external partners - business targets improve, sometimes radically, those engaged feel they have achieved transformation and then gradually the organization reverts to old ways of working. 

How many times have we heard from top management that "We have gone through three transformations in the last ten years, and each time we are back where we started 12 months prior”

The session help you get answer to these questions - 

• Why do you  struggle to achieve lasting impact in your transformation ? 
• What are Leading indicators of sustainable transformation (or not)?
• How can you make your transformation stick?

Digital disruption is all about how fast you can deliver customer and business value in a most efficiently to beat the competition. Most of the transformation efforts are spent on IT as a function and local optimizations but time to value goes far beyond only IT functions. Digital transformations need to focus on several aspects across business and IT. In this session, participants will learn holistic approach of transformation which enables the organizations to truly build products and services in a most disruptive, efficient and innovative ways.

While we see disruption happening everywhere and the world is experiencing unforeseen crisis, many organizations are not able to respond quickly to these situations. One of the primary reason is their current workforce is not ready for it.
In this session, I will share my experiences of how some of the organizations we have worked with,  have built the digital workforce and nurturing such talent to take on these challenges, embrace change and move fast.
The areas that I will cover in this session are around building digital talent portfolio, hiring for culture, building the learning organization and scaling the workforce in a non linear way.

Responsiveness is new reality. Transparency and visibility are new must have for leaders. Exploration and adaption of new technologies is new norm. How do we build such a responsive organization?

Three elements to build responsive organization-

• Adaptive leadership
• Value driven portfolio
• Organization design

Five steps for meaningful digital transformation

• Focus on outcomes that matter
• Clear measure of success and data driven decision making
• Evolutionary architecture and lean change approach
• Building autonomous teams
• Adaptive leadership and learning culture

Target outcomes

• Build learning org
• Ability to attract and retain talent
• Maximize the value
• Steering mechanism for reacting to change

As per recent surveys, ~90% of agile transformations are not successful. Studies have indicated that major reasons behind this failure are lack of leadership support, lack of supporting environment, inability to change the mindset of people.

In this talk, we will share our learnings from a agile transformation of a very large global consulting player. We will talk about how we changed ways of working (WOW), created suitable environment, which enabled us to change mindset of leaders and the teams so that they can thrive in this transformation.

Responsiveness is new reality. Transparency and visibility are new must have for leaders. Exploration and adaption of new technologies is new norm. How do we build such a responsive organization?

Three elements to build responsive organization-

• Adaptive leadership
• Value driven portfolio
• Organization design

Five steps for meaningful digital transformation

• Focus on outcomes that matter
• Clear measure of success and data driven decision making
• Evolutionary architecture and lean change approach
• Building autonomous teams
• Adaptive leadership and learning culture

Target outcomes

• Build learning org
• Ability to attract and retain talent
• Maximize the value
• Steering mechanism for reacting to change

As per recent surveys, ~90% of agile transformations are not successful. Studies have indicated that major reasons behind this failure are lack of leadership support, lack of supporting environment, inability to change the mindset of people.

In this talk, we will share our learnings from a agile transformation of a very large global consulting player. We will talk about how we changed ways of working (WOW), created suitable environment, which enabled us to change mindset of leaders and the teams so that they can thrive in this transformation.

In today's world where Technology is at the Core of Businesses, faster value delivery and shorter cycle time is the key. For a few years now, DevOps and associated techniques are used by many organizations to get better at automated deployments, seamless code integration, automated testing, environments management etc. However, in most cases, these are practiced just as a "practice" without understanding why they are doing it. In many cases, it is just a technical quest driven by competition. Also, most implementations are limited only until creation of CI/CD pipelines.

This talk provides core understanding on the Genesis of DevOps providing an in-depth coverage of how the IT systems have evolved over time, how the customer behavior has changed demanding the businesses to change, and how DevOps helps meeting those demands. Also covered is how to cultivate the associated Culture that is crucial for effective DevOps implementation. Talk covers topics beyond CI/CD providing a holistic view of of DevOps including techniques/practices as well as the Enablers of DevOps in an Enterprise.

Responsiveness is new reality. Transparency and visibility are new must have for leaders. Exploration and adaption of new technologies is new norm. How do we build such a responsive organization?

Three elements to build responsive organization-

• Adaptive leadership
• Value driven portfolio
• Organization design

Five steps for meaningful digital transformation

• Focus on outcomes that matter
• Clear measure of success and data driven decision making
• Evolutionary architecture and lean change approach
• Building autonomous teams
• Adaptive leadership and learning culture

Target outcomes

• Build learning org
• Ability to attract and retain talent
• Maximize the value
• Steering mechanism for reacting to change

Many companies in today's VUCA world are planning to bring enterprise agility. While many frameworks are available in market, what is missing is the mindset, culture and organizational design that is needed to bring enterprise agility. It also demands coordination across entire value chain and various business process that are part of, or impact the software development life cycle. This session will focus on larger context of enterprise agility and what is needed to bring life to agile enterprises.

Many companies in today's VUCA world are planning to bring enterprise agility. While many frameworks are available in market, what is missing is the mindset, culture and organizational design that is needed to bring enterprise agility. It also demands coordination across entire value chain and various business process that are part of, or impact the software development life cycle. This session will focus on larger context of enterprise agility and what is needed to bring life to agile enterprises.

Objective

Objective of this workshop is to understand depth and meaning of scrum
master role, how to deal with complex real life challenges as a scrum
master and how to build roadmap to become a great scrum master.

Many organizations are introducing agile transformation programs or maturing their existing programs. However overall business outcome of the transformation journey is not substantially high. While there could be many reasons for this, one of the major reason is focus on transformation of one small unit in entire organization - called product development. This session will help the attendees to understand what is business agility and how to rethink your enterprise agile transformation strategy for greater business outcomes.

Session name - Outcome based agile coaching

We all want to become good agile coach. But what does that mean? How do you get better outcome from your agile coaching sessions? In this session, participants will experience how to improve outcome of your coaching session. Some areas we will focus in this session are output Vs outcome, why, what, how of coaching, how to make coaching outcome etc.

This will be a hands on workshop with very minimal guidance from facilitator. Participants will have experiential learning through the activities to understand how to align agile coaching to deliver maximum impact on business outcome.

Role of managers in agile has been discussed a lot. But role of managers in scaling agile implementations in large programs is still a challange for many organizations. This talk focuses on how managers can add value in scaling agile implementation and take up a lean agile leadership role. My talk will cover some guidelines from various scaling frameworks and some real world scenarios based on lean thinking.

Why one size doesnt fit all?  - Selecting scaling framework.

This session will focus on what are the aspects organizations should consider when they want to scale agile implementation in organization.  There are several frameworks out there like SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, and so on. what is it that organization is trying to achieve and how a systematic approach of scaled agile implementation can help the organization.

Attendees will be able to understand what aspects should be considered before organization decides to scale agile.  How to scale agile and when to do it largely depends on what organization is trying to achieve. Each organization is operating it in different way so there is no defined formula or framework that will work for all. But guidelines from this session will help the members to identify their needs and then take further action.  These guidelines can help the organization to successfully scale agile irrespective of which framework is selected.

This session will focus on what are the aspects organizations should consider when they want to scale agile implementation in organization.  There are several frameworks out there like SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, and so on. what is it that organization is trying to achieve and how a systematic approach of scaled agile implementation can help the organization.

Attendees will be able to understand what aspects should be considered before organization decides to scale agile.  How to scale agile and when to do it largely depends on what organization is trying to achieve. Each organization is operating it in different way so there is no defined formula or framework that will work for all. But guidelines from this session will help the members to identify their needs and then take further action.  These guidelines can help the organization to successfully scale agile irrespective of which framework is selected.

Areas covered in this session are:

• what are the driving principles while scaling agile

• Where to start

• Which Framework should I select?

• Organizational changes

• Role of managers?

• Scaling communication

• Scaling engineering practices

• Scaling Product Management role

• Roll out plan

• Implement the plan

• Grow and evolve

This session will be mix of talk, case study and experience report.

This session will focus on what are the aspects organizations should consider when they want to scale agile implementation in organization.  There are several frameworks out there like SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, and so on. what is it that organization is trying to achieve and how a systematic approach of scaled agile implementation can help the organization.

Attendees will be able to understand what aspects should be considered before organization decides to scale agile.  How to scale agile and when to do it largely depends on what organization is trying to achieve. Each organization is operating it in different way so there is no defined formula or framework that will work for all. But guidelines from this session will help the members to identify their needs and then take further action.  These guidelines can help the organization to successfully scale agile irrespective of which framework is selected.

Areas covered in this session are:

• what are the driving principles while scaling agile

• Where to start

• Which Framework should I select?

• Organizational changes

• Role of managers?

• Scaling communication

• Scaling engineering practices

• Scaling Product Management role

• Roll out plan

• Implement the plan

• Grow and evolve

This session will be mix of talk, case study and experience report.